Download or read book Changes in Highway Post Office Contracts 87 1 written by United States. Congress. House. Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How the Post Office Created America written by Winifred Gallagher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical development. The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the U.S. government’s largest and most important endeavor—indeed, it was the government for most citizens. This was no conventional mail network but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind thirteen quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizen—a radical idea that appalled Europe’s great powers. America’s uniquely democratic post powerfully shaped its lively, argumentative culture of uncensored ideas and opinions and made it the world’s information and communications superpower with astonishing speed. Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the post office as America’s own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries. The mandate to deliver the mail—then “the media”—imposed the federal footprint on vast, often contested parts of the continent and transformed a wilderness into a social landscape of post roads and villages centered on post offices. The post was the catalyst of the nation’s transportation grid, from the stagecoach lines to the airlines, and the lifeline of the great migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It enabled America to shift from an agrarian to an industrial economy and to develop the publishing industry, the consumer culture, and the political party system. Still one of the country’s two major civilian employers, the post was the first to hire women, African Americans, and other minorities for positions in public life. Starved by two world wars and the Great Depression, confronted with the country’s increasingly anti-institutional mind-set, and struggling with its doubled mail volume, the post stumbled badly in the turbulent 1960s. Distracted by the ensuing modernization of its traditional services, however, it failed to transition from paper mail to email, which prescient observers saw as its logical next step. Now the post office is at a crossroads. Before deciding its future, Americans should understand what this grand yet overlooked institution has accomplished since 1775 and consider what it should and could contribute in the twenty-first century. Gallagher argues that now, more than ever before, the imperiled post office deserves this effort, because just as the founders anticipated, it created forward-looking, communication-oriented, idea-driven America.
Download or read book Changes in Highway Post Office Contracts written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Phantom of the Post Office written by Kate Klise and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the impending closure of the post office, the transition to the new communication system VEXT-mail is anything but smooth for the human and paranormal residents of Ghastly, Illinois, in a story told through a lively compilation of illustrations, letters, newspaper articles and drawings. 35,000 first printing.
Download or read book Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriations 1952 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treasury Post Office Departments Appropriations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Post Office Department Appropriation Bill for 1947 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 2128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Post Office Department Appropriation Bill for 1950 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriations 1952 Hearings Before the Subcommittee of 82 1 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Curtailment of Certain Railway Post Offices written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses problems arising from proposed changeovers from railway to other forms of mail transportation.
